Elizabeth Sellars

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Elizabeth Sellars (born May 6, 1921 in Glasgow , Scotland , United Kingdom , † December 30, 2019 in France ) was a British film and stage actress .

Life

Sellars turned to the theater at an early age and studied at the traditional London drama school Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . During the Second World War, she appeared in theater plays for troop entertainment. In 1946 she appeared in a production of the play The Brothers Karamazov . In 1957 Sellars starred in the play Loner (Tea and Sympathy) at the London Comedy Theater . There she took on the role of Laura, who falls in love with the much younger boarding school student Tom Lee (played by Tim Seely ).

Sellars made her cinema debut in 1949 in the film Two Young Hearts and from then on was regularly seen in British cinema, often portraying ladylike and elegant women. In 1952, she played the main role of the patriotic freedom fighter Maureen Fagan on the side of John Mills and Dirk Bogarde in the IRA thriller The Bomb in the Underground . She also appeared in several Hollywood films, but stayed here as a supporting actress: In The Barefooted Countess , Sellars appeared around 1954 on the side of Humphrey Bogart - who played her husband in this film - and Ava Gardner . In 1963 she stood in front of the camera again with Gardner for the monumental film 55 days in Beijing . In 1967 she was seen in the hammer film The Curse of the Mummy . From the 1970s onwards, only a few film and television roles followed for Sellars; in 1990 she played her last film role.

Sellars was married to Francis Austin Henley from 1960 until his death in 2009 and was the stepmother of his son Raymond. She died at her home in France in late 2019 at the age of 98.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: Two young hearts (Floodtide)
  • 1950: Madeleine
  • 1950: Guilt Is My Shadow
  • 1951: Cloudburst
  • 1951: Night Was Our Friend
  • 1952: A child was a witness (Hunted)
  • 1952: The Bomb in the Underground (The Gentle Gunman)
  • 1953: The Broken Horseshoe
  • 1953: Perjury (The Long Memory)
  • 1953: Recoil
  • 1954: Three's Company
  • 1954: Forbidden Cargo
  • 1954: The Barefoot Countess (The Barefoot Contessa)
  • 1954: Désirée (Desirée)
  • 1955: King of the actor (Prince of Players)
  • 1955: Three Cases of Murder
  • 1956: The Last Man to Hang?
  • 1957: Test machine CB 5 (The Man in the Sky)
  • 1957: Precious Burden (The Shiralee)
  • 1957: Ordeal by Fire (TV movie)
  • 1958: Welcome to Kittchen (Law and Disorder)
  • 1959: Death is Belated (Jet Storm)
  • 1960: At Home (TV movie)
  • 1960: The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
  • 1960: The Marten of London (Never Let Go)
  • 1962: The Webster Boy
  • 1962: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (TV movie)
  • 1963: 55 Days at Beijing
  • 1964: The Chalk Garden (The Chalk Garden)
  • 1967: The Curse of the Mummy (The Mummy's Shroud)
  • 1973: Message for Lady Franklin (The Hireling)
  • 1984: Winter Sunlight (TV miniseries)
  • 1984: A Voyage Round My Father (TV movie)
  • 1990: A Ghost in Monte Carlo ( A Ghost in Monte Carlo , TV movie)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/elizabeth-sellars-dead-barefoot-contessa-actress-was-98-1265543
  2. SELLARS - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
  3. Elizabeth Sellars | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved January 6, 2020 (American English).
  4. ^ The Age, May 25, 1957 on news.google.com
  5. ^ Greg Evans, Greg Evans: Elizabeth Sellars Dies: Co-Star Of Bogart, Brando And Olivier Was 98. In: Deadline. January 2, 2020, accessed on January 6, 2020 .
  6. SELLARS - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .